FUNGI KINGDOM

SOME COMMON CHARACTERISTICS

• Eukaryotic organisms
• Non-vascular organisms
• Reproduce by spores
• Non-motile
• Heterotrophic

MORE CHARACTERISTICS

• Digest food, then ingest food to produce enzymes
• Store there food as starch
• Most are multicellular(yeast is unicellular)
• Cell wall contains chitin

NON-CHARACTERISTICS

• Not a plant
• Not photosynthetic
• Cell walls do not contain cellulose
• Not prokaryotic

THE FUNGI KINGDOM EXAMPLES

YEASTS

SMUTS

MILDEWS

MOLDS

MUSHROOMS

TOADSTOOLS

PROTISTA KINGDOM

SOME COMMON CHARACTERISTICS

• Most are unicellular(algae is multicellular)
• Can be heterotrophic & autotrophic
• Most live in water(some live in most soil or on the human body)
• All are aukaryotic
• Major component of plankton

MORE CHARACTERISTICS!

• Form cysts in adverse conditions
• Movement often by flagella or cilia
• Can reproduce by mitosis

NON-CHARACTERISTICS

• Not plants
• Not fungus
• Not an animal
• Not a prokaryote
• Do not specialized tissue organization

PROTISTA KINGDOM EXAMPLES

ZOOFLAGELLATES

SARCODINES

CILIATES

SPOROZOANS

ALGEA

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